Bitcoiner Simon Dixon on bankruptcies and Elon Musk: Hall of Flame

Name: Simon Dixon
Anonymous: No
Twitter Followers: 109.1K
Known for: Co-founder of Bank To The Future and the dude who wrote the first-ever published publication connected Bitcoin.

Who is this feline anyway?

Simon Dixon is simply a existent Bitcoin O.G. He is the writer of the first-ever published publication connected Bitcoin successful the satellite Bank to the Future, which was released successful February 2012, and has splashed implicit $1 cardinal successful currency investing successful “over 100” antithetic crypto companies, including Kraken, Ripple Labs and — err — Celsius.

Dixon stumbled upon Bitcoin erstwhile helium was “deep successful debt” aft his ambitious effort to commencement a accepted slope didn’t spell to plan. “I failed astatine that task,” helium admits.

Instead of throwing successful the towel, Dixon yet founded BnkToTheFuture, an online concern level that crowdsources backstage equity funding, giving smaller-scale investors who tin fulfill regulatory requirements successful their ain countries entree to early-stage but risky tech VC-style opportunities, with Celsius, Kraken, Bitfinex and Securitize among them.

In caller times, helium has “accidentally go the Chapter 11 guy” arsenic helium seems to person psychic powers successful predicting what crypto steadfast is going to spell into Chapter 11 next.

“I was telling everyone that Celsius was going to spell bankrupt earlier it went [bankrupt]. I was the 1 calling retired Digital Currency Group arsenic a institution that’s astir apt going to spell bankrupt. I [predicted] that BlockFi [would] spell into Chapter 11.”

What led to Twitter fame?

Dixon built his 109,000 pursuing organically and says helium has “never truly invested important clip into providing contented for people.” But he’s been “advocating for Bitcoin since 2011,” and his followers grew implicit the years done sharing contented connected “building and protecting your wealthiness utilizing Bitcoin,” and helium says Bitcoin personally “transformed” each his finances successful life.

In caller times, helium has seen an influx of followers owed to his advocacy for victims who person mislaid their savings successful caller crypto speech bankruptcies, particularly those from Celsius.

“This 1 was specified a level of fraud that I couldn’t support quiet.”

What to expect successful his Twitter content

While Dixon continues to supply utile Bitcoin contented for the crypto community, recently, he’s been advocating for “more and much radical successful these Chapter 11 Bankruptcies.”

“I started sharing contented connected however you tin optimize these bankruptcy proceedings to marque the astir for creditors, and that seemed to pb to a batch of radical wanting to articulation maine connected Twitter Spaces.”

Check retired the shots fired astatine FTX done elemental arts and trade enactment connected a paper article.

He is often seen motivating those who are losing anticipation of ever getting their funds backmost from Celsius.

Dixon adjacent managed to get Elon Musk connected the infamous Twitter Space erstwhile helium was “covering the FTX clang live” arsenic investors were suspending withdrawals.

It was chaos, arsenic Musk had “just completed the acquisition” of Twitter, too.

Dixon took vantage of the accidental to inquire Musk if “there was immoderate spot for Bitcoin connected Twitter.”

“He was lone meant to beryllium determination for 30 minutes. He really stayed connected the abstraction for astir an hour.”

Oh yeah, and from clip to time, helium posts astir his casual hangs with satellite leaders.

Here is Dixon pictured hanging retired with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.

Twitter Likes

Dixon likes to travel radical connected Twitter who really person a passionateness for crypto done the bully and atrocious times, not those conscionable trying to marque a subordinate from shilling shitcoins.

“I’m funny successful radical that person remained accordant to Bitcoin erstwhile it’s not chill to beryllium accordant to Bitcoin.”

Dixon said that helium is simply a large instrumentality of the “old school” Andreas Antonopoulos, arsenic helium doesn’t get arsenic “much recognition arsenic helium deserves today.”

He said that Antonopoulos did a batch of the hard enactment explaining Bitcoin successful its aboriginal days, “when it was precise hard to explicate to people.”

Twitter Beefs

Top Quality Beef: Alex Mashinsky

Despite Dixon’s precocious profile, helium hasn’t had a batch of nationalist feuds.

This isn’t astonishing considering helium is simply a reasonably bully and well-mannered dude.

His 1 and lone nationalist beef is with the erstwhile CEO of the now-defunct crypto lending speech Celsius, Alex Mashinsky.

After the illness of Celsius, Mashinsky was told by his lawyers that “he’s not allowed to talk,” according to Dixon.

Dixon’s commentary connected the Celsius bankruptcy got connected Mashinky’s nerves truthful overmuch that helium decided to disregard his lawyer’s proposal and “broke his silence” successful bid to blasted Dixon for “all of this fraud.”

Dixon said that Mashinsky “created a conspiracy theory” that Dixon has each of the creditor’s wealth and that helium is being paid by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) to effort and “take down Celsius.”

Dixon encouraged his Twitter followers to casually spell and writer Mashinsky, saying it would beryllium a “valuable” plus to Celsius.

Future outlook

Dixon isn’t a instrumentality of the Chapter 11 process, which helium believes is “scammy” and conscionable 1 “ginormous wealth grab” to bargain lawsuit money.

While Dixon is simply a immense believer successful Bitcoin, helium doesn’t person immoderate acceptable terms predictions. He thinks successful “terms of four-year cycles” astir the halvings, and close now, helium said we’re “two years into the 4th cycle,” which is astir surviving quantitative tightening.

He said that this volition beryllium a pugnacious 1 due to the fact that we’ve ne'er proven that Bitcoin tin past erstwhile dollars aren’t being printed endlessly.

The past signifier volition beryllium astir surviving cardinal slope integer currencies, which if successful, helium believes Bitcoin volition person “cemented itself arsenic the store of worth successful the world.”

“This is going to alteration the world.”